We’ve spotted a strange asteroid that’s spinning itself to pieces

An artist impression of the asteroid

(6478) Gault is a unfamiliar asteroid around 4.5 kilometres all the draw in which thru that orbits the solar every 3.5 years

NASA Goddard Save Flight Center from Greenbelt, MD, USA

There’s a brand unique receive of asteroid, and it’s spinning so mercurial it’s falling apart. A tiny asteroid has been throwing off rocks for on the least 6 years, essentially the most activity we’ve ever considered from a rock of its form.

On the whole there are two reasons for an asteroid to blow off fabric: either one thing has hit it, or it has ices or parts known as volatiles, including water, …

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